The Heliodoro Rodríguez López hosts the second leg of the final between CD Tenerife and Girona FC (8:00 pm, #Vamos), from which one of the two teams will emerge with a place in the First Division of Spanish football.
After the goalless draw in the first leg a week ago in Montilivi, the tie will be won by the team that manages to score one more goal this Sunday and, in the event of a tie after extra time, the Tenerife residents would be promoted for having been better classified in the regular phase .
The chicharrero stadium will register a full house, with more than 22,000 spectators in the stands, in a match that has aroused great expectation on the island given the possibility that Tenerife will return to the First Division twelve years after its last relegation.
It will be the second final for promotion that the islanders dispute with the current competition system, after staying one goal away from the highest category in 2017 in the tie against Getafe.
With the premise of maintaining the defensive solidity that has characterized them all season, Ramis’s squad have expressed during the week their intention to improve the offensive performance of the first leg to generate more problems for Girona.
The blue and white coach has not offered any clues about the starting eleven that he will put into the fray, although the forecast is that the team will be very similar to the one that has played the three games of the promotion.
To be promoted, Girona needs to win and score. In the first leg in Montilivi, he was much superior, but he was also very ineffective, he couldn’t find a way to beat Juan Soriano. He made 16 shots for three of Tenerife and took eight corners, six more than his rival.
Míchel Sánchez’s team will not have it easy, because Tenerife has been the second best defense in the regular league (37) and has only conceded one goal in three play-off games and because they have not won any of the three duels in this course against the canaries, with two defeats and a draw.
Girona is, in fact, the team that has played the most promotion finals, 5 out of 12, and the only one that has lost more than one (4): they fell to Almería in 2013, to Osasuna in 2016, to Elche in 2020 and against Rayo Vallecano a year ago. He wants to go up after being sixth in the regular league, just as Elche and Rayo did precisely in Montilivi.
